Director‘ excited’ to do Fifty Shades by STAFF REPORTER source TONIGHT
Black Swan interns win‘ slave labour’ suit by STAFF WRITER source CHANNEL24
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Director‘ excited’ to do Fifty Shades by STAFF REPORTER source TONIGHT
LOS ANGELES- British director Sam Taylor- Johnson will direct a movie version of erotic best-seller“ Fifty Shades of Grey,” the studios behind the project announced on Wednesday.
Taylor-Johnson, who was nominated for a BAFTA for 2009’ s“ Nowhere Boy” about John Lennon, will make the film for Universal Pictures and Focus Features, based on a screenplay by Kelly Marcel.
“ Sam’ s unique ability to gracefully showcase complex relationships dealing with love, emotion and sexual chemistry make her the ideal director to bring Christian and Anastasia’ s relationship to life,” said producer Michael De Luca.
“ E L James’ s characters and vivid storytelling require a director who is willing to take risks and push the envelope where needed, and Sam is a natural fit,” he added in a statement.
Forty-six year-old Taylor-Johnson- who changed her name from Sam Taylor-Wood after marrying“ Nowhere Boy” star Aaron Johnson, 23, last year- said she was“ excited” to bring the book to the silver screen.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
“ For the legions of fans, I want to say that I will honour the power of Erika’ s book and the characters of Christian and Anastasia. They are under my skin too,” she said.
Spiced up with sado-masochism, the 2011 novel was the first part of a trilogy about a relationship between a college graduate, Anastasia Steele, and a young business magnate, Christian Grey.
The two studios acquired the rights to the three books in the“ Fifty Shades” trilogy Ä which also included“ Fifty Shades Darker” and“ Fifty Shades Freed”- in March 2012.
The trilogy has been translated into 50 languages, and sold over 70 million copies worldwide in ebook and print, making it one of the fastest-selling book series ever, they said.
Black Swan interns win‘ slave labour’ suit by STAFF WRITER source CHANNEL24
NEW YORK- A judge ruled on Tuesday that Fox Searchlight utilised the unpaid Black Swan interns as employees without giving them the educational experience mandated by law and thus constitutes as slave labour, reports Deadline.
This ruling comes after interns that worked on the film set of Black Swan sued Fox Searchlight for circumventing labour laws surrounding unpaid interns. Fox disagrees with the ruling and will be seeking to reverse the judgment.
In the lawsuit, Alex Footman, one of the plaintiffs in the case, states that he and other interns were made to fetch coffee and lunch and clean up the offices, basic work that is meant to be done by employed workers.
American federal law require that unpaid interns should receive the same education as they would at an educational institution and that they do not do the work of employees.
The case was filed in 2011 seeking
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